1. Marwan Barghouti Served as Secretary General of Fatah in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, a member of the Palestinian legislature, head of the Tanzim, and the founder of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades which has carried out a large number of deadly terrorist attacks killing scores of Israelis and wounding hundreds.

2. In the framework of his activities, he has received large amounts of funds from different sources both inside and outside Israel. Among these sources is the Palestinian Authority. The specific allocations of these funds were authorized by the actual signature of Yassser Arafat. These funds were used by Marwan Barghouti to finance many activities carried out by terror cells in the West Bank.

3. Marwan Barghouti served as the most senior official in the Al-Aqsa Brigades. Nasser Avis, who was recently captured in Samaria, and Ahmed Barghouti, who was Marwan Barghouti’s personal assistant, reported directly to him. These two served as his operational officers and, under the initiative of Marwan Barghouti, launched dozens of attacks, including a large number of suicide bombings within Israel.

4. The following are some of the more heinous terror attacks for which he is responsible:

Jun 12, 2001 – The murder of a Greek Orthodox monk on the road to Ma’ale Adumim.

Jan 17, 2002 – The shooting attack during a bat mitzva celebration at a banquet hall in Hadera. Six Israelis were killed in this attack, 26 were injured.

In that post, we documented how Israeli authorities had isolated Barghouti and transferred some prisoners to other prisons. But some Israelis are taking matters into their own hands.

Members of a “far right” Israeli party have set up a barbecue outside the prison in the hope the smell will reach the hunger-striking prisoners, The Jerusalem Post reports:

National Union activists held a barbecue to taunt Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike Thursday.

The youth branch and secretary-general of the far-right party, which has two representatives in Bayit Yehudi, Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel and MK Bezalel Smotrich, set up grills outside the Ofer Prison to “celebrate the hunger strike” and “break the spirit” of the strikers, in hopes that the smell of the meat wafts into the prison.

The prisoners “will enjoy the breathing in the smoke and suffer from the smell of the meat and show them that we will not give in to their whims.”

The group also called on the government “not to surrender to the oppressor terrorists and act with full force to free the captives [Hadar] Goldin and [Oron] Shaul,” who are presumed dead and whose bodies are being held by Hamas in Gaza.

Let them Die: Israeli Jewish radicals celebrate hunger strike of Palestinian political prisoners with a barbecue in front of Ofer Prison. pic.twitter.com/Bf4k3d5ZDY

Leftist atheists who are Jews by birth alone and support the PLO eat pork; Jews who support the National Union and would think this kind of stunt a good idea do not eat pork, and certainly wouldn’t eat it in public.

No, you are. This is Israel. Thanks to an activist and aggressively leftist judiciary, pork is easier to get than it used to be, but one still has to look for it, and it still carried a stigma even among those who don’t keep much. Nobody attending this sort of protest would be so rude as to grill it in public, even if they eat it themselves.

“Chief among the personnel stories is that of Lieutenant Harold H. “Swede” Larsen, who stayed with the squadron’s detachment in Hawaii during the Midway battle and took command thereafter as the senior surviving officer. To the extreme regret of VT-8’s junior officers and enlisted men, Larsen turned out to be “a bullheaded young martinet with the charming leadership style of Captain William Bligh.” Although fearless in battle (he overtly boasted that he’d earn a Medal of Honor at Guadalcanal), Larsen was a cruel despot to his men, two of whom even tried to shoot him.”

There were no bomb trucks/dollies! Swede laid into his ordnance man for dumping the bombs into into the mud lie there was another choice.

But Swede was fearless in battle. So was Katz.

“At the other extreme were men like Aaron Katz, a Jew who had to suffer Larsen’s virulent anti-Semitic insults while becoming one of the squadron’s most successful pilots, and John Taurman, who survived a ditching but refused his automatic stateside leave in order to stay with the squadron and was killed shortly thereafter…”

Most of the men in torpedo 8, in the Navy, hadn’t heard of a Jew. Aaron Katz taught them what to think.

What happens to a huge hunger strike when no one cares? I mean if the Israelis just wait for them to die one by one, then their problems and costs go down proportionally and they cannot be blamed because FORCING someone to eat against their will is a violation of their civil rights. I see this as a win-win.

This is funny. When the terrorists went on hunger strike my immediate thought was the prison should instead of feeding the guards in a cafeteria have a BBQ just outside the walls holding the hunger strikers.

This is not an original thought. Obviously. My admiral remarked that if the NORKs invaded the south we could stem the advance simply by dropping McDonald’s happy meals in the battle area. The NORKs would stop and eat.

Here’s hoping that, if the reports are true, now that we have more than one carrier in the AO that they rotate holding steel beach…